It's one of the best feelings in the whole wedding planning process -- when the bride FINALLY finds THE DRESS!!
I think I share the same common feelings as most brides who've endured this process. After trying on dress after dress, there was always some kind of "ehh" or "but..." I consider myself fairly easy to please, and since I have a knack for simplicity and elegance, I thought my search would be rather easy. Well, the problem there was that I knew EXACTLY how simple and EXACTLY how elegant I wanted my dress to be, and turns out, knowing exactly what you want tends to make it a tad bit harder in a sense!
After ALMOST settling for a dress and realizing how much time was counting down, I asked God again to show me THE dress. Although every dress I tried on that I THOUGHT I liked ended up letting me down, I never lost hope. I KNEW that if God orchestrated this chapter of my life, He most certainly included all the little details as well... So I STOPPED looking.
Ehh, I was so busy with school anyways, so it wasn't THAT much of a sacrifice, but I made sure that I completely shunned away every hint of worry in heart, and trusted God with the situation.
Sure enough, without notice, opportunity came. I stumbled across it unexpectedly on the exact website I ended up ordering it from. It was absolutely gorgeous ONLINE (just like every other dress I tried on), but something inside me urged me to make an appointment as soon as possible to try it on. I got the appointment on Sunday and invited my future sister-in-law with me this time. As I stepped into the showroom dress that was 3 - 4 sizes larger, I was ALREADY FLOORED by how PERFECT it looked on me! The best part was that my consultant didn't even get to clip it against my body yet! So you can just imagine how even more amazed I was when it was actually fitted... I thanked God right then and there. Of course, my future sister-in-law was amazed as she saw me walk out. Though our tastes are nearly opposite, she KNEW that was MY dress. It was definitely "me" -- every last detail on it. There were no "umms" or "buts" about it!
Oh, and the icing on my cake was getting the dress for LESS than 50% of its original price (Edit: Sorry, my math is bad!). :) Like I always say... ABUNDANTLY blessed! PTL!
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
THE Dress
It's one of the best feelings in the whole wedding planning process -- when the bride FINALLY finds THE DRESS!!
I think I share the same common feelings as most brides who've endured this process. After trying on dress after dress, there was always some kind of "ehh" or "but..." I consider myself fairly easy to please, and since I have a knack for simplicity and elegance, I thought my search would be rather easy. Well, the problem there was that I knew EXACTLY how simple and EXACTLY how elegant I wanted my dress to be, and turns out, knowing exactly what you want tends to make it a tad bit harder in a sense!
After ALMOST settling for a dress and realizing how much time was counting down, I asked God again to show me THE dress. Although every dress I tried on that I THOUGHT I liked ended up letting me down, I never lost hope. I KNEW that if God orchestrated this chapter of my life, He most certainly included all the little details as well... So I STOPPED looking.
Ehh, I was so busy with school anyways, so it wasn't THAT much of a sacrifice, but I made sure that I completely shunned away every hint of worry in heart, and trusted God with the situation.
Sure enough, without notice, opportunity came. I stumbled across it unexpectedly on the exact website I ended up ordering it from. It was absolutely gorgeous ONLINE (just like every other dress I tried on), but something inside me urged me to make an appointment as soon as possible to try it on. I got the appointment on Sunday and invited my future sister-in-law with me this time. As I stepped into the showroom dress that was 3 - 4 sizes larger, I was ALREADY FLOORED by how PERFECT it looked on me! The best part was that my consultant didn't even get to clip it against my body yet! So you can just imagine how even more amazed I was when it was actually fitted... I thanked God right then and there. Of course, my future sister-in-law was amazed as she saw me walk out. Though our tastes are nearly opposite, she KNEW that was MY dress. It was definitely "me" -- every last detail on it. There were no "umms" or "buts" about it!
Oh, and the icing on my cake was getting the dress for LESS than 50% of its original price (Edit: Sorry, my math is bad!). :) Like I always say... ABUNDANTLY blessed! PTL!
I think I share the same common feelings as most brides who've endured this process. After trying on dress after dress, there was always some kind of "ehh" or "but..." I consider myself fairly easy to please, and since I have a knack for simplicity and elegance, I thought my search would be rather easy. Well, the problem there was that I knew EXACTLY how simple and EXACTLY how elegant I wanted my dress to be, and turns out, knowing exactly what you want tends to make it a tad bit harder in a sense!
After ALMOST settling for a dress and realizing how much time was counting down, I asked God again to show me THE dress. Although every dress I tried on that I THOUGHT I liked ended up letting me down, I never lost hope. I KNEW that if God orchestrated this chapter of my life, He most certainly included all the little details as well... So I STOPPED looking.
Ehh, I was so busy with school anyways, so it wasn't THAT much of a sacrifice, but I made sure that I completely shunned away every hint of worry in heart, and trusted God with the situation.
Sure enough, without notice, opportunity came. I stumbled across it unexpectedly on the exact website I ended up ordering it from. It was absolutely gorgeous ONLINE (just like every other dress I tried on), but something inside me urged me to make an appointment as soon as possible to try it on. I got the appointment on Sunday and invited my future sister-in-law with me this time. As I stepped into the showroom dress that was 3 - 4 sizes larger, I was ALREADY FLOORED by how PERFECT it looked on me! The best part was that my consultant didn't even get to clip it against my body yet! So you can just imagine how even more amazed I was when it was actually fitted... I thanked God right then and there. Of course, my future sister-in-law was amazed as she saw me walk out. Though our tastes are nearly opposite, she KNEW that was MY dress. It was definitely "me" -- every last detail on it. There were no "umms" or "buts" about it!
Oh, and the icing on my cake was getting the dress for LESS than 50% of its original price (Edit: Sorry, my math is bad!). :) Like I always say... ABUNDANTLY blessed! PTL!
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